The Beautiful Foot, Part II
Manolo says, just the other day, the Manolo wrote the following,
The bunion in these fetish shoes belongs to that dreary spotlight hound, the Posh Spice.
You may be assured that if she–the connoisseur of plastic surgery–has not yet had the feet operated upon it is because she has not yet thought it fashionable.
And now comes this news from the Daily Mail.
The scale of Victoria’s painful bunion problem was laid bare recently when she was snapped in a pair of spiked Mulberry sandals. Now a friend of the former Spice Girl tells me: ‘Victoria has had enough of having bad feet and has made some early-stage enquiries about having her rather unpleasant bunions removed.
‘They are causing her a considerable amount of pain, so much so that she thinks the only thing to do is to have surgery. She knows the operation is unpleasant and she will be out of action for a while, but she thinks it may be worth it.
‘It is something she will probably have done in the States when the family is fully settled in LA.’
When I bumped into 33-year-old Victoria recently, she candidly confessed her feet were giving her a headache. ‘I always wear stilettos but they have given me awful feet,’ she said.
‘I hate my feet, they are the most disgusting thing about me. Part of the reason I wear such amazing shoes is to take the eye away from my horrid feet and on to the stunning shoes.’
The Manolo stands corrected.
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me 17 years ago
I don’t think having surgery to correct bunions is akin to plastic surgery. I believe there are many people out there who suffer from bunions and opt for surgery out of a desire to reduce pain rather than to beautify their feet. It’s hardly fair for you to judge her for this decision; especially since the other individual you cited was undergoing surgery to reduce the length of a toe in order to fit into a pair of shoes more easily. In my opinion, that and this are two entirely different situations.
And no, I’m not a fan of Victoria Beckham.
Rachel 17 years ago
I just w3ant to say that the word “bunion” immediately gives me a fit of the giggles.
That is all.
hee
Style Spy 17 years ago
Years of dance training when I was a youngster and working on my feet as an adult have left me with budding bunions, as well, and I’ve also looked into the surgery. It is indeed “unpleasant,” and I’m not seriously considering it at this point, but I think I would if things get worse. I’m not exactly a fan of VB, but she does have my sympathies on the painful feet — I’ve been living with a foot injury myself for a year and not many things will make you crankier than not being able to walk without pain, no matter how fabulous your shoes.
deja pseu 17 years ago
Well, that might explain the sour look she always seems to be wearing along with those stillettos.
Noga 17 years ago
“I wear such amazing shoes is to take the eye away from my horrid feet and on to the stunning shoes”
This is a pretty doubtful strategy. The extraordinarily ugly shoes concentrated attention on her feet. They matches in that respect.
It’s like a very fat, wrinkled woman wearing a gorgeous skimpy dress with a plunging décoleté. The beauty of the dress rather accentuates the ungainliness of the body inside it, no?
She might have had better luck if she chose to wear something like this:
http://z.about.com/d/shoes/1/0/h/V/isaac_mizrahi.jpg
Classy, closed, comfortable, concealing and probably conciliatory towards bunions and toes.
Bob 17 years ago
me is correct. Bunions can be extremely painful and having them corrected is not akin to an optional surgery like reducing wrinkles. I know a couple of people who had this surgery because the pain is really awful. And, you can’t get away from it unless you never walk – and how likely is that to happen?
theresa 17 years ago
I’ve had bunion surgery (I didn’t ruin my feet with heels–I happened to inherit a crazy-shaped foot from my mom.) I’m only 25 and I’m very active, and it was definitely affecting my quality of life having to limp around all the time.
A good podiatrist will be very conservative in his or her approach to surgery. Many bunions can be relieved by preventative or therapeutic measures–so my doctor was extremely careful to be certain I wasn’t just trying to make my feet prettier. He answered all my questions and was very professional.
The procedure itself wasn’t all that unpleasant. It was covered by my insurance–and I was even able to pay the bills while I was out of work due to my company’s decent short-term disability pay. I was on crutches for several weeks. There was very little pain during my recovery as long as I stuck to sensible shoes. I definitely couldn’t wear any sky-high heels for many months after–but it was certainly worth it. And my foot doesn’t hurt anymore!
I do have a few towering stilettos that I’ll wear on special occasions, but certainly not if I have to do a lot of standing and walking. My feet will never really be beautiful, at least not in the conventional sense, but they’re strong and pain-free, and that’s much more attractive to me than a lifetime supply of designer shoes.
Bridey 17 years ago
“It’s like a very fat, wrinkled woman wearing a gorgeous skimpy dress with a plunging décoleté. The beauty of the dress rather accentuates the ungainliness of the body inside it, no?”
Absolutely. Very fat, wrinkled women should wear burlap sacks. Even better, they should just stay in the house and never even get out of their burlap bathrobes.
a girl 17 years ago
Her shoes are not the most disgusting thing about her. Not as long as she has that face.
Noga 17 years ago
“they should just stay in the house and never even get out of their burlap bathrobes”
Not at all. They just have to avoid wearing skimpy dress with a plunging décoletés. Aren’t we talking, after all, about elegance and good taste?
Bridey 17 years ago
IMHO, the elegance or tackiness of a given dress is not dependent on the size of the body within it. So, Noga, I guess we’ll have to politely agree to differ!
Han1509 17 years ago
Oh please! Brand Beckham is one of the best British exports in decades!!! Everyone loves them (in a curious sense, if nothing more). Victoria Beckham has such a cool range of denim (even at an extortionate price) and her husband is just plain gorgeous (and an exceptionally talented soccer player, too). How can anyone be scathing towards them? VB was a dancer well before she became a Spice Girl, so that’s probably where the bad bunions originated from. Yeah, wearing towering stilletos doesn’t help her situation, but let’s be fair. She’s a media icon. . . constantly tailed by the paparazzi. Considering this, she has to be seen in the best clothes, the best shoes, the best everything. I can’t see the media being too interested if she’s wearing paint crusted sweats and a pair of old sneakers, can you? I like her, a lot. I think she’s just misunderstood. She is happy in a high profile marriage (most of Hollywood should sit up & take notes) and is mother to 3 children. She manages to see her husband playing in his most important soccer matches (last week, for example, when Real Madrid won the La Liga championship) and still maintain a career of her own. Who really cares what her feet look like? Are we as a society so damn shallow that we have to find fault in everything? And let’s face it, when we look in our own mirrors, what do we see? Perfection? Unlikely. Probably not anywhere near. The Beckhams are very generous folks, too. David works and puts a lot of his time into helping underprivelidged children. These people should be respected, not victimized. How many of us “normal people” can say that we donate money & TIME to charities? Just lay off, people.
Tia Nieve 17 years ago
The Tia Nieve has worn sensible working shoes for most of her life, but has only begun to wear the more superfantastic shoes after she has gained the age of 45. Thus, the Tia now has the beginning of a bunion on her right foot and she cannot decide whether it was due to the wearing of superfantastic shoes or inevitable.
But the Tia feels that a young woman like the Posh, who is continually wearing the heels that are high, (did you see her throwing the ball out at Dodger Stadium wearing 4″ wedgie sneakers? The Tia was shocked!) may be aggravating the situation of the bunion.
Perhaps, instead of wearing the shocking and flamboyant high heeled spiked sandal to take attention away from her feet, the Posh should wear the elegant and classic and comfortable shoe to make her feet feel better.
The Tia is curious about the surgery of the bunion. Does it actually work and make the feet feel better? The Tia is managing her incipient bunion by wearing comfortable yet elegant shoes.